On Friday, May 28, 1851, the company brought home their new carriage
from the painter's. The body was a plum color, the running gear brown,
with gilt, red and white stripes. On the reel were two beautiful
paintings; on the right panel was a very pretty design, entitled "The
Guardian Angels," representing a child slumbering on a couch and an
angel leaning over the head of the couch, and another watching at the
side. On the left panel an elegant and chaste design, entitled
"Repose," representing a group of females reposing under the
shade of a cluster of trees. The pictures on the reel encircled by a
silver rim, and the outer edge of the reel by rich carved work. On the
front box was a large silver place, with "Columbian" neatly
engraved on it. On the back box was the presentation of the Firemen's
Monument at Greenwood, with the motto, "We Cherish Their
Memory." Underneath the front and back boxes were two carved
dolphins, richly gilt. On each of the side panels was a large silver
figure "9," surrounded by rich carved work. The springs and
tongue were polished ina superb manner. The lifters were very handsome,
representing a boy shooting marbles. On the lid of the front box was the
following unique inscription:

"They who steal our purse steal trash;
But they who basely steal our books, torches, etc.,
Rob us most villainously,"-[See minutes of 9
Hose, and when found make a note of it.]

The carriage was painted by A. P. Moriarty.

No. 10. -- East River. -- Liberty. -- Organized February 1, 1837;
located in Roosevelt Street, and after 1840 at 3 Dover Street; went out of
service in 1865. Among the members were Chas. H. Lyons, foreman; Jacob M.
Small, assistant; Bartholomew J. Broderick, James Corrigan, Chas. Collins,
and Robert Cottrell. At the annual meeting of Liberty Hose, held on Monday
evening, May 12, 1851, the following were elected officer for the ensuing
year: Thomas Woodward, foreman; William M. Randell, assistant; Thomas L.
Thornell, secretary; Joseph Hilton, treasurer; M. Shaffner, steward;
George A. Buckingham and James Y. Watkins, Jr., representatives. On May
10, 1852, the following were elected officer for the ensuing year: Thomas
Woodward, foreman; William Hagadorn, assistant; Charles L. Brower,
secretary; John T. Southwell, treasurer; John Nichols, steward; Wm. De
Lander and Israel C. Lawrence, representatives. On Monday evening, May 8,
1854, Liberty Hose presented Thomas Woodward, ex-foreman, with a handsome
gold hunting watch as a testimonial of their esteem. It was presented by
the foreman, Charles L. Brower, which Mr. Woodward responded to. At the
same meeting the following officers were elected: Charles L. Brower,
re-elected foreman; Chas. H. Lyons, re-elected assistant; Lewis Sylvester,
secretary, vice Geo. Randell; Andrew Cusack, representatives. At the
annual meeting held May 14, 1855, the following officers were elected for
the ensuing year: Charles H. Lyons, foreman; Lewis Sylvester, assistant;
Stephen J. Jennings, secretary; Charles L. Brower, treasurer; Chas. L.
Brower and John Mills, representatives.

No. 11. -- Gulick. -- Was organized March 25, 1837, located at Amos
Street, went out of service in 1865. Among the members were: Henry W. Van
Wart, foreman; David G. Robinson, assistant; Geo. Brettel, Charles E.
Findley, Allen J. Cummings, Schuyler

Westervelt, Robert M. Halliday, James Bogardus. In November, 1850, the
company presented their retiring foreman, Mr. Jacob Varian, with a
beautiful silver trumpet. Mr. V. L. Buxton made the presentation. John
Wesley Stinman was foreman, and alderman Jacob l. Dodge assistant foreman,
until 1847, in which year they received a new hose carriage, one of the
most beautiful in the service, all the metal work being silver-plated and
the wood work handsomely painted; on the back panel was painted a
beautiful picture of the capture of Andr�. It was always one of the most
respectable companies in the service.

Jacob Varian was foreman and Thomas H. Vantine asssitant foreman until
May, 1850. Thomas H. Vantine was elected foreman and John J. Gorman
assistant foreman, May, 1850; John J. Gorman resigned his office, also
membership in the company, July 17, 1851. Thomas H. Vantine was foreman
and Robert R. Colfax assistant foreman until 1854; Robert R. Colfax was
foreman and James B. Hunt assistant foreman until May, 1855; James B. Hunt
was foreman and John H. Westervelt asssitant foreman until may, 1856; John
h. Westervelt was foreman and David G. Robinson assistant foreman until
May, 1858; David G. Robinson was foreman and Henry M. Van Wart assistant
foreman until may, 1961; Henry Van Wart was foreman and Wm. H. Spear
assistant foreman until May, 1862; Wm. H. Spear was elected foreman and
James W. Groome, assistant foreman, May, 1862; in May, 1864, Wm. H.
Matthews was elected assistant foreman, Spear still commenting foreman and
Matthews assistant foreman until the disbandment of the company in 1865.

No. 12. -- Washington. -- Organized March 24, 1837, located at 244
West Seventeenth Street, and after 1847 in Horatio Street near Hudson;
disbanded January 21, 1858. Samuel Wooley was foreman, Freeman Campbell,
assistant. Other members were James Berrian, foreman, Wm. d. Wallace,
assistant, Ezra Woodruff and Samuel S. Carmen.

Minute. -- Washington. -- (the second No. 12). -- Organized under the
name of "Minute" on January 20, 1859, having changed from Hose
Company No. 62. The name was subsequently changed to
"Washington" located in Forty-third Street near Tenth Avenue,
and went out of service in 1865. Robert B. Lecte was foreman, and Samuel
Wooley assistant.

In May, 1852, the Washington Volunteers attached to Washington hose
company No. 12 held a meeting at the carriage house for the purpose if
showing their respect and esteem for the foreman of the company. Mr. P. W.
Black, secretary of the Volunteers, presented on behalf of the Volunteers
a magnificent ring to Wm. P. Daniels.

At the annual meeting of Washington Hose, May 14, 1850, the following
officers were elected for the ensuing year: Wm. P. Daniels, foreman, vice
Abram Ackerman, declined; John F. Giraud, assistant, vice Wm. P. Daniels,
promoted; John W. Bartine, secretary, vice John W. Jacobs, declined; E. K.
Adams, treasurer; Robert Dickson and John W. Johnson, representatives. On
May 11, 1852, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year:
Wm. P. Daniels, re-elected foreman; John F. Giraud, re-elected assistant;
A. C. Coquillett, re-elected secretary; John Nicholson, re-elected
treasurer; Wm. A. Harrison, steward: John W. Bartine, recorder; Wm. Wray
and James Graham, representatives. On May 10, 1853, the following were
elected for the ensuing year: John F. Giraud, foreman; Abram C. Coquillett,
assistant; Robert Kiernen, secretary; John Nicholson, treasurer; Miles W.
Standish, steward; Wm. P. Daniels and James Graham, representatives. On
May 9, 1854, the following were elected officers for the ensuing year:
Abram C. Coquillett, foreman; Joseph De Shay, assistant; James A. Fenning,
secretary; John Nicholson, treasurer; Robert Dixon and Samuel Galloway,
representatives.

No. 13. -- Express. -- Organized May 6, 1837, with Zophar Mills
foreman, Cornelius C. Glashan assistant foreman. "Express" was
organized by some of the former members of No. 13 engine; located in Rose
Street, and next in Eldridge Street near division. Disbanded December 6,
1843.

Jackson (the second No. 13). -- Was organized on February 7, 1844,
located at 34 Mangin Street, went out of service in 1865. Among the
members were peter Boyce, foreman; Floyd W. Patrick, assistant; William
Barnes, Jacob E. Terhune and Jacob M. Fenn. On November 4, 1852, the
members of Jackson Hose assembled at the hose house and presented an
elegant fire certificate frame to Stephen Hallick, retiring foreman. The
frame was presented by James H. Johnson, and was gotten up by A. J.
martin. The presentation committee were John H. Blake, James H. Johnson
and Thomas Jarvis. At the burning of the Althouse Iron Works, corner of
Houston and Greene Streets, on November 16, 1862, the fire went across the
street and burned a church on the southwest corner of the above streets.
At this fire Theodore Mangum, a member of the Insurance Patrol, was killed
while in the back room of an adjoining house by the walls crushing through
the roof upon him. Mangum was an exempt member of Jackson Hose.

No. 14. -- Atlantic ("Lady Suffolk"). -- Organized May 3,
1837, by John S. Giles, Henry A. Burr, Wm. W. Corlies and others, and
located first at 2 Elizabeth Street, in a little two-story building still
standing, and commenced doing duty two a two-wheeler jumper. Messrs.
Giles, Burr and Corlies were each of them afterwards foreman of the
company, Mr. Corlies becoming assistant engineer in 1848. When Engine
Company 15 was disbanded in 1849 No. 14 Hose Co. moved into their house at
49 Christie Street, where they remained until Engine 15 was reorganized in
1852. AS No. 15 went back to their old quarters, this left Hose Company
No. 14 with a location, and the carriage was housed at the Corporation
yard in Mangin Street until 1853, when they removed to their new house at
19 Elizabeth Street, next door to the chief engineer's office, where they
remained until disbanded in 1857. James R. Mount was foreman when they
removed to their new house, and continued so until 11857. Arthur J. Evans,
of this company, was killed at the fire in Palmer's chocolate factory, in
Duane Street, neat Centre, September 25, 1852, by the falling of the
hoisting wheel. He was just going in the hallway with the pipe of 15
Engine when the wheel fell and nearly severed his head off. Another
member, Patrick O'Brien, contracted a heavy cold at the foundry fire in
Lewis Street, and died from its effects August 20, 1851.

When No. 14 lay at 19 Elizabeth Street they erected a pole on their
building, which was surmounted by a weather vane representing the famous
trotting horse "Lady Suffolk," then queen of the turf, the
company having adopted her name after her then remarkable feat of trotting
a mile in 2:26 on June 14, 1849. When the Volunteer Department was
disbanded this vane was transferred to a pole on the southeast corner of
Third Avenue and Fifty-first Street, where it still remains. They ran the
jumper until 1850, when they received a new carriage with Pine's patent
running gear, which was a very heavy solid carriage, and had the picture
of "Lady Suffolk" on it. This was replaced in 1856 by a new
carriage painted white and gold, built by J. H. Ludlum, and which was used
by 29 Hose Company after No. 14 was disbanded. Harry Howard was foreman in
1851 and resigned to take the position of assistant engineer, to which he
had been appointed. James E. Kerrigan, afterwards member of Congress and
also colonel of the Twenty-fifth Regiment N. Y. S. Volunteers during the
rebellion, was a volunteer with the company before he went on the
filibustering expedition of Capt. Walker to Central America; and Manuel
Silva, afterwards Peterson Engine Co. 31 was assistant foreman at the time
of their disbandment.

Excelsior. -- (the second No. 14). -- Was organized march 11, 1858,
with Wm. H. Ely foreman, and Akex. M. Eagleson, assistant. Among the
members were J. Wentworth Braine, Chas. E, Findlay and Jonas H. Sayre. The
company was located at 160 West Thirteenth Street, and went of service in
1865.

No. 15. -- Victory. -- Fulton. -- Peterson. -- This company was
organized May 13, 1837, and located in Cortlandt (Tin Pot) Alley, in the
house afterwards used by 19 Hose. James Gulick was foreman, John M.
Valentine assistant, and John McBraw secretary. Their carriage was one of
the two-wheeled affairs then in use, and which they ran for ten years. In
1839 they were located in the alley in the rear of Essex market, and in
1847 they removed to the house No. 1-1/2 Eldridge Street, the former
location of Chatham Engine Company No. 2 and Lafayette Engine Company No.
19. This building had a wooden figure of a fireman on the roof. In 1847
the company got their first four-wheeled carriage, George Baker being the
foreman. In 1849 John P. Hopkins became foreman of the company, followed
in 1851 by Andrew H. Mitchell. In 1852 the company was disbanded, and
reorganized the same night as Fulton Hose company No. 15, and in the
following year got a new carriage, which was painted the same colors as
Fulton Engine Company No. 21--yellow running year and white boxes. The
paintings were a scene on the North River, Robert Fulton, and a
representation of one of the "Lindsey Blues," a famous militia
company of that day. This carriage killed two men while going to fires, at
one time while racing down Columbia Street, with 4 Truck on the crown of
the street and 9 Hose on the left. 15 turned to the right to go by them,
and a blacksmith named Wall jumped on the rope, but, before going far,
tripped on a pile of rubbish and feel under the wheels. He was carried
into a neighboring drug store, where he soon after expired. At another
time, while turning into Pearl Street, near William Street, Robert
McCausland, a runner, and brother-in-law to Thomas Bonran, one of the
members, feel from the rope as the company turned out to pass 2 Engine,
and was instantly killed. On the morning of April 15, 1840, James Glasgow,
of this company lost his life by the falling of the walls at the fire of a
match factory in Eldridge Street. James S. Wells, an assistant engineer,
formerly a member of Engine Company No. 36, was also killed at this fire.

William O'Shaughnessy was foreman of the company in 1853, and Andrew H.
Mitchell in 1854 and 1855, the latter having previously served as foreman
of the company. In 1956 Daniel MacLaren was elected foreman, and
re-elected the following year with William Brandon as assistant. At that
time the Company adopted the name of Peterson. After MacLaren William
Brandon was elected foreman, and on April 6, 1859, the company was
disbanded.